HMS Moselle

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Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Moselle after the Moselle river:

HMS Moselle (1793) was a French 24-gun sloop captured by the British at Toulon. She was recaptured by the French in January 1794 and captured again by the British four months later. She was added to the Royal Navy as a sixth rate before being sold in September 1802.
HMS Moselle (1804) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1804 and sold at Deptford in December 1815.

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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hawk after the bird of prey, the hawk:

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito:

HMS Antigua has been the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, named after the Caribbean island of Antigua:

Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rapid:

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scout:

HMS Helena has been the name of several British Royal Navy ships, and may refer to:

Fourteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name Raven, after birds of the genus Corvus, particularly the common raven:

Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:

Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Espoir, after the French word for "hope":

HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Surinam, after an English variation of Suriname:

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References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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